Sustainability and Social Impact

Through our Sustainability and Social Impact course, you’ll analyse how sustainability is critical to an organisation’s operations and strategy. You’ll select relevant social impact approaches and justify your rationale for embedded change within your organisation. As an ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) advocate, you’ll develop short, medium, and long-term goals to ensure continuous improvement in your sustainability roadmap.

So why study Sustainability and Social Impact with us?

• Strategic sustainability focus with embedded skills: You’ll be equipped with the tangible skills and knowledge to improve the sustainability outcomes and plans within your organisation. You’ll adopt the necessary skills to facilitate a mindset shift across your teams and stakeholders.
• Clearly articulate a problem with a sustainability roadmap: Complete this course and identify a succinct sustainability challenge and construct an appropriate roadmap to address the solution within your business. This solution will also include a justified approach that you can present to stakeholders for approval and sign off.
• Delivered with leading industry partners: Designed with leading partners Deloitte, Thankyou, and Humanitech, be assured that the course content is aligned with  industry best practice and industry leaders in sustainability.

• Internal communications professionals, partnerships or community managers, people and culture teams, business partners, or operational team members who are looking to influence change, improvements, and decisions within their organisation.
• Emerging or existing leaders looking to understand the importance of and develop the skills to drive a sustainability plan within your organisation. You’ll learn to assess materiality and consider sustainability frameworks as you develop a plan for your organisation

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Explain why sustainability and social impact are critical to an organisation’s framework and/or strategy
• Select initiatives for inclusion in an organisation’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy and justify these choices based on the material, social and environmental impacts of the organisation
• Explain how change management principles, stakeholder management, and communications will be used for affecting and embedding change within an organisation
• Develop appropriate goals against which to measure and continuously improve an ESG strategy